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Hello, everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Subi Scoop.
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This is the last one for 2025.
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This is the last Subi Scoop for this year.
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I can't believe we're going into 2026.
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I hope everybody had a great Christmas, great holiday so far, and we've got one more coming
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New Year's Eve, and I don't know if anybody has any big plans, but I'm supposed to be going
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over to a friend's house to hang out and just bring in the new year, which that'll be nice.
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But as we close out 2025, I want to say thank you to everybody for continuing to listen
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to the podcast, for sharing it, and I appreciate everybody.
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I appreciate everybody's support, and for those of you that have been hanging around
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from the beginning, I really, really appreciate you.
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There's not a whole lot to report with this edition.
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I mean, I'm just still enjoying some time off and trying to find something else to get
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back into for full-time work.
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I am doing some work, which is good, but I'm trying to find something permanent,
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and hopefully, I'm thinking that maybe companies just aren't hiring at the end
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of the year around the holidays, so hopefully 2026, the beginning of 2026 in January, will
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bring some more light into finding something more permanent.
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But I hope that 2026 is going to be good for everybody.
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I know 2025 was really good to a lot of people, and 2025 maybe wasn't so great to
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So hopefully 2026 will continue to be good if 2025 was really good.
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And for those that didn't have the best 2025, hopefully 2026 will be better.
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Well, it's been nice having Pearlback, of course I had Pearlback for a while, but it's
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nice to be driving my own car again, and I still need to get my axle seal replaced.
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I'm planning to do that next Monday, and taking it to a shop to get it replaced.
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Because again, I could do it myself, but I just don't trust myself with the axle
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How it's supposed to go in, I think like if I had seen somebody do it, and I was like,
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had somebody who'd done it before to help me out, and like really fine tune getting
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it placed in there just right, because apparently it's kind of finicky, then I would feel more
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comfortable doing it.
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But I think for me it's just better to have a shop do it, because I'm taking it
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to the same shop that replaced the axle seal on the passenger side, and it's
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It's been leaking, so I trust them to replace the one on the driver side and get it done
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right, and get it done by people that know what they're doing.
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So I mean, of course there are certain things that I've been able to do myself, and I trusted
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myself to do them, but I'm not sure about this, I just don't want to do it.
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But for 2026 is, you know, thinking about I haven't done any mods on Pearl in a
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really long time, and I think when I have the opportunity, I think the next thing I'm
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going to do is the Ultimate Nine pedal throttle controller, because I really want to get one
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When I was in Virginia for Overland Expo out there, and I was hanging out with Milton
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a lot, we were talking about that, and he said that the Ultimate Nine is really
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good, and I know a couple of people that have it on their manual cross track, and they
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really like it, so I think that's something that I want to shoot for when I get a chance
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But other than that, I don't know what else I would get, I don't know what else I would
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I do need to replace the easy flares on my back wheel wells, because when I had
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the accident, it popped the bumper, the sides of the bumper out, like they go around
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the side of the car, and it split the easy flares.
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So now I'm driving with like two thirds or three fourths of an easy flare, and then there's
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like a piece that's missing, so it doesn't really bother me, but I'll need to get another
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set of easy flares to replace that one, so that it looks right again, because now
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it just doesn't look right, but again, it just doesn't bother me too much.
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And I'm just glad that Pearl's fixed and that I'm able to drive around again.
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I'm also only about 700 miles from hitting 140,000 miles on Pearl, and like I'm excited
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to get to more miles, like I'm going to be excited to get to 150,000, because that's
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kind of a big deal, you know, that's a pretty big number of, or quite a bit of
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miles to get on your car.
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And I'm just glad that I have a Subaru, because none of my other cars have been able
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to get this as many miles as I have on mine.
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I think I had a Ford Ranger that I got to about 120,000 miles before it was having
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engine trouble, and I needed to get a new car anyway, because we were having our first
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child, and I needed something that was more of a sedan, because my single cab
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truck just wasn't going to work out well for that.
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And then the car that I had right before Pearl, I think I got that car to 121 or 122,
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and it was having issues also, but I'm just, I'm so glad I bought a Subaru.
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I know that people can drive them for a really long time, and that's what I'm
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hoping to do with Pearl.
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I mean, so far, she's been doing great.
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Again, the only thing that, you know, of course I had to replace the brake
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pads and the rotors, but I mean, that's, you know, that's going to wear anyway on
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But like the viscous coupling is the only thing I've really had to replace that
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needed to be replaced, and that was my doing.
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So I probably wouldn't even have to replace it now if I wasn't going off
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road in the mud really hard.
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But I'm looking forward to new episodes in 2026.
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Of course, I'm going to have new guests on.
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I'm going to have some new brands on.
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And then I'm looking forward to continuing to work with Subaru for Subaru Gear.
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If you haven't checked out Subaru Gear, go check it out.
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They have new items that they've added.
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Subaru Gear has so many great products that you can choose from.
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From drinkware to clothing to your car to home to your kids.
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I mean, they have so many different products and you can use the code
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SUBIENU2026 starting in January for 20% off.
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And then of course, if your total is over $50 after the 20% discount,
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you automatically get free shipping, which is really nice.
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So thank you so much, Subaru Gear for that.
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But if you saw my reels that I did with the two coffee mugs,
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especially the second one, because the second one, I put some music to it
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and I felt like that worked out a little bit better.
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I want to try to get more creative with some of the videos and reels that I do.
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Because I've been doing them the same way for really a long time.
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So I'm hoping that maybe some more stuff can come together with Subaru Gear
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this next year and doing some more items and just doing it differently
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and maybe getting some more exposure out there.
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So it's been great working with Subaru Gear and Subaru in general.
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Of course, I went to Overland Expo last year.
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I'm looking forward to going to Overland Expo in 2026.
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And maybe some other things will come about, too.
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So we'll just have to wait and see what comes about.
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And hopefully I can get out to some more events
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and get a chance to meet more people in person, because of course,
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that is always fun.
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But yeah, we'll see what 2026 brings.
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I hope 2026 is good to everybody, everybody else.
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And I'm sure that there's just going to be some new things coming about.
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It's fun, too, to see when there's somebody new coming into the community
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because you'll see you'll get a follow from somebody that has like one photo
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and it says new. That's always exciting.
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I always get excited when I get a new follow by from somebody
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that's like just getting started in the community,
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especially if it's somebody where it's their first Subaru,
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like me and many others, you know,
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you get your Subaru, you find out about the community,
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you start to start an Instagram page and then start going crazy.
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But it's been a fun journey.
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It's been a great five years and I appreciate everybody.
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I'm looking forward to what comes next.
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And I just hope everybody has a happy new year
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and just enjoy the evening, be safe.
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Don't go out there and do anything crazy.
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Please hope everybody just has a safe time and has a good time.
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And we will see you for the first episode of 2026 next week.
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It'll be it's a guess that people know about.
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And that's all I'm going to say, but it's going to be a good episode.
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And it's a lot of fun recording with this person.
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And I'm looking forward to putting it out there and sharing it with everybody.
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So have a great week.
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Have a great new year.
